Beware of the Godless Malware

You might have heard of the Godless Android malware that surfaced last month. This post explains some important facts around the malware, and how you can stay away from it.

What is the Godless Malware?Carrying a bit of an intimidating name, ‘Godless’ is a malware that targets Android phones that run Android Lollipop 5.1 and earlier. The malware was found to be present on apps available in third-party stores and even official stores such as Google Play.

What does the Godless malware do?Once the malware has successfully infected an Android phone, it roots the device. By ‘rooting’ it means to attain privileged control of the system to carry out tasks that cannot be performed otherwise. Once Godless has rooted the infected device, it performs the following operations: